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Bigotry on Broadway : an anthology

Title
Bigotry on Broadway : an anthology / edited by Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank.
Publication
  • Montreal : Baraka Books, [2021]
  • ©2021

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  • Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
  • Blank, Carla
Description
216 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
"How do intellectuals and scholars feel about how members of their ethnic groups are portrayed on Broadway? How would we know? Very few of them have the power to rate which plays and musicals are worthy and which are flops, and above all, be heard or read. The American critical fraternity is an exclusive club. In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited a diverse group of informed and accomplishes writers, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the long-standing bigotry on Broadway towards many different ethnic minorities. Contributors include Lonely Christopher, Tommy Curry, Jack Foley, Emil Guillermo, Claire J. Harris, Yuri Kageyama, Soraya McDonald, Nancy Mercado, Aimee Phan, Betsy Theobald Richards, Shawn Wong, David Yearsley, and the editors." - publisher's description.
Subject
  • Race in the theater > New York
  • Theater and society > New York
  • Minorities in the performing arts > New York
  • Racism > New York
  • Racism in literature
  • Minorities in the performing arts
  • Race in the theater
  • Racism
  • Theater and society
  • New York (State) > New York
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216).
Contents
Introduction / Ishmael Reed -- Foreword: Is Broadway about Dollars and Cents? / Carla Blank -- Great Moments with Mr. Hamilton / Lonely Christopher -- Making Mister: Anti-Black Misandry in Alice Walker's Portrayal of Black Men in "The Color Purple" / Tommy J. Curry -- Irving Berlin: Bigotry and Brilliance / Jack Foley -- Neither Cockeyed nor an Optimist about "South Pacific" / Emil Guillermo -- "The Book of Mormon" is Racist, Why Isn't Anyone Talking about It? / Claire J. Harris -- Why "Butterfly" Should Stop Committing Literary Hara-kiri / Yuri Kageyama -- The Unbearable Whiteness of "Oklahoma!" / Soraya Nadia McDonald -- Everyone Tells My "West Side Story" but Me / Nancy Mercado -- "South Pacific", "Miss Saigon", Soft Power, and Me / Aimee Phan -- When You Mess with Creation Myths, the Knives Come Out / Ishmael Reed -- Responding to "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" & Claiming the Power of Native Voice / Betsy Theobald Richards -- Dance and Song Before Story: Was "Flower Drum Song" a Phantasy? / Shawn Wong -- "Oklahoma!": As American as Apple Pie and Broken Treaties / David Yearsley.
Call Number
Sc D 23-194
ISBN
  • 9781771862561
  • 1771862564
LCCN
2020448209
OCLC
  • 1268138335
  • 1268138335
Title
Bigotry on Broadway : an anthology / edited by Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank.
Publisher
Montreal : Baraka Books, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216).
Added Author
Reed, Ishmael, 1938- editor.
Blank, Carla, editor.
Research Call Number
Sc D 23-194
MWET 21-3452
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